Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Small round trip

2017-07-20 Thread V.J Rada
I retract any and all CFJs We could even not burden the arbitor further with text such as "Any player may, without objection, make themselves judge of any unassigned CFJ they reasonably believe to be wholly insubstantial and frivolous and assign it a judgement of DISMISS" (Stealing the words whol

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Small round trip

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 16:27 +1000, V.J Rada wrote: > You're right, the rules are strangely different as to deregistration. > Probably because it has consequences by barring you from registering for a > while. I think when playing a game, the form "I'll do X" is acceptable as > "I do X". eg: "I'll g

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Small round trip

2017-07-20 Thread V.J Rada
You're right, the rules are strangely different as to deregistration. Probably because it has consequences by barring you from registering for a while. I think when playing a game, the form "I'll do X" is acceptable as "I do X". eg: "I'll go to attacks" is always interpreted as "I go to attacks" in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Small round trip

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 07:21 +0100, Alex Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 16:17 +1000, V.J Rada wrote: > > CFJ: (at the time of calling) Cuddlebeam is a player. > > > > Are "I'll deregister" and "I think its better for the both of us if > > I dereg > > for now." > > unambiguous intent to deregi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Small round trip

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 16:17 +1000, V.J Rada wrote: > CFJ: (at the time of calling) Cuddlebeam is a player. > > Are "I'll deregister" and "I think its better for the both of us if I dereg > for now." > unambiguous intent to deregister? This is irrelevant, unambiguously intending to deregister does

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Small round trip

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 22:57 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > I have no clue what the appropriate response is, so I'm just going to > restrict this to a technical point (note that I take no game actions > in this message): you have to actually say "I deregister". Or to clarify: you don't have to use t

Re: DIS: Fwd: [Agora] Request for advice regarding CFJ 3532

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 22:21 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > I'm forwarding this message, which I originally sent to omd, to a-d in > the hopes that it might find an answer here. I feel kind of awkward > doing this, but it needs an answer so I can resolve the case, and I > don't have time at the momen

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Small round trip

2017-07-20 Thread Owen Jacobson
You might be surprised at this, but I'll be sad to see you go, and glad if you return. While I agree with others that certain ideas you've tried were poorly thought out at best, and that you carried them on far longer than was wise, in other respects you've shown some interesting capacity for ex

DIS: Re: BUS: Small round trip

2017-07-20 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > I'm a bit embarrassed about everything going on, so I'll deregister. > > In my defense for the latest thing, I did take a situation which is entirely > innocuous to the rest of the game (trust tokens, who uses them? And even > then, you could

Re: DIS: Fwd: [Agora] Request for advice regarding CFJ 3532

2017-07-20 Thread Aris Merchant
P.S. I know I'm late on all of my obligations, and I'll catch up on them this weekend. -Aris On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > I'm forwarding this message, which I originally sent to omd, to a-d in > the hopes that it might find an answer here. I feel kind of awkward > doi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread Aris Merchant
Actually, this proposal is seriously flawed. A person can always claim to have believed that something they tried (however unreasonably), and honest players like G. get caught in the crossfire when they do things they're unsure of. A better way to do this is a reasonable person standard (complain a

DIS: Fwd: [Agora] Request for advice regarding CFJ 3532

2017-07-20 Thread Aris Merchant
I'm forwarding this message, which I originally sent to omd, to a-d in the hopes that it might find an answer here. I feel kind of awkward doing this, but it needs an answer so I can resolve the case, and I don't have time at the moment to draft a better email. -- Forwarded message --

Re: DIS: Referee Archives

2017-07-20 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 00:44 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> Would it be useful to archive Referee decisions and arguments, as we >> do with Calls for Judgement? > > I'm not sure about "useful", given that by definition they have no > precedential

Re: DIS: Referee Archives

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 00:44 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > Would it be useful to archive Referee decisions and arguments, as we > > do with Calls for Judgement? > > I'm not sure about "useful", given that by definition they have no > precedential value,

Re: DIS: Referee Archives

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 00:44 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > Would it be useful to archive Referee decisions and arguments, as we > do with Calls for Judgement? I'm not sure about "useful", given that by definition they have no precedential value, but it would at least be interesting (and part of the

DIS: Referee Archives

2017-07-20 Thread Owen Jacobson
Would it be useful to archive Referee decisions and arguments, as we do with Calls for Judgement? -o signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Jul 20, 2017, at 2:25 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > o, you seem to have accepted that a pledge in Japanese, of very limited > comprehension to me, and with limited enforceability due to translation issues > (even with the translator) is still some kind of publicly-made pledge. Why > does > this

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Jul 20, 2017 10:02 PM, "Alex Smith" wrote: On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 22:52 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:57 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > ibonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > I pend this for the minimum allowable amount. > > As the proposal’s imminen

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Jul 20, 2017, at 10:37 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 22:11 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> Attempting, as Cuddlebeam explicitly did, to issue Trust Tokens on >> behalf of others, without even the faintest attempt to find >> justification in the rules, is plainly and obvious

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Jul 20, 2017, at 10:33 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 19:19 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: >> I agree with this carding. CuddleBeam has repeatedly shown that e >> cares neither about the feelings of the other players, nor about the >> interests of the game. As the player who s

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Jul 20, 2017, at 11:02 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 22:52 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: >>> On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:57 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >> ibonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I pend this for the minimum allowable amount. >> >> As the propo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 22:52 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:57 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > ibonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > I pend this for the minimum allowable amount. > > As the proposal’s imminence had already been flipped to Pending by > V.

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 22:11 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > Attempting, as Cuddlebeam explicitly did, to issue Trust Tokens on > behalf of others, without even the faintest attempt to find > justification in the rules, is plainly and obviously an intentional > misinterpretation of the rules. E knew t

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:57 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > wrote: > > I pend this for the minimum allowable amount. As the proposal’s imminence had already been flipped to Pending by V.J Rada, I believe that this fails and will record that you paid nothing to do nothing unless someone

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Jul 20, 2017 9:19 PM, "Aris Merchant" wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > I find that a Red Card is appropriate, and hereby issue one to Cuddlebeam by summary judgement. I agree with this carding. CuddleBeam has repeatedly shown that e cares neither about the feeli

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017, Alex Smith wrote: On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 22:11 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: Attempting, as Cuddlebeam explicitly did, to issue Trust Tokens on behalf of others, without even the faintest attempt to find justification in the rules, is plainly and obviously an intentional misin

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 19:19 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > I agree with this carding. CuddleBeam has repeatedly shown that e > cares neither about the feelings of the other players, nor about the > interests of the game. As the player who spoke most strongly in eir > support when this whole mess sta

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgment on CFJ 3541

2017-07-20 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: There is some ambiguity of what, exactly, a nickel is. Common knowledge tells us it is a metal, but one would rarely refer to an amount of nickel as "a nickel" without qualification--a lump of nickel, or a vein, or an atom. Nickel is ultimately an a

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Surveyor] [Probably] Weekly Report

2017-07-20 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Jul 20, 2017, at 9:14 AM, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > I Point a Finger at Cuddlebeam for a violation of R2471 for attempting > to publish a Surveyor report when e was not the Surveyor. As > Cuddlebeam has had over a week since the CFJ ruling that e was not the > Surveyor and one week since I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread V.J Rada
I think Less Strict Faking by nichdel would probably end the game as we know it but Less Strict Faking by nichdel is the only thing that can save it imo. On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:13 AM, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > I got yours, I just didn't wanna say anything because I thought it might > be fu

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
I got yours, I just didn't wanna say anything because I thought it might be funny -grok On Jul 20, 2017 8:09 PM, "V.J Rada" wrote: I already did this. Did my message not send? On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote:

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread V.J Rada
I already did this. Did my message not send? On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I pend this for the minimum allowable amount. > > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > > > > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread Nic Evans
On 07/20/17 19:07, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: >>> Amend R2471 (No Faking) to read: >>> >>> A person SHALL NOT attempt to perform an action which e does not believe >>> to be possible so as to deceive others. > What's the standard for belief.

Re: DIS: Proto: Pledges

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > On Jul 20, 2017 6:16 PM, "V.J Rada" wrote: > Also I need to spend my money before it gets blanked for value. > Title: Pledges, again. > Amend rule whatever "Pledges" by adding at the end > {{{ > No message shall be construed as a pledg

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > Amend R2471 (No Faking) to read: > > > > A person SHALL NOT attempt to perform an action which e does not believe > > to be possible so as to deceive others. What's the standard for belief. Like, if I'm 50/50 "eh, this might or mi

Re: DIS: Proto: Pledges

2017-07-20 Thread V.J Rada
I don’t like this because I like the usability for private contracts and the lack of need for the explicit “pledge” term. The explicit "pledge" term could be "intent to make a pledge" instead. I can think of at least one example ("outside the statute of limitations" as it were) in which I promised

Re: DIS: Proto: Pledges

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Jul 20, 2017 6:16 PM, "V.J Rada" wrote: Also I need to spend my money before it gets blanked for value. Title: Pledges, again. Amend rule whatever "Pledges" by adding at the end {{{ No message shall be construed as a pledge unless it contains the word "pledge". A pledge is "publically made" o

DIS: Re: Proposal: Less Strict Faking

2017-07-20 Thread Nic Evans
I'd really appreciate if someone pended this. It'd be very useful in the following hypothetical: Imagine, if you will, an extremely belligerent player that tries a deluge of 'scams' with arguments full of special pleading, whatboutism, and innocence-by-ignorance that could only be interepreted by

Re: DIS: Proto: Pledges

2017-07-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I don’t like this because I like the usability for private contracts and the lack of need for the explicit “pledge” term. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:16 PM, V.J Rada wrote: > > Also I need to spend my money before it gets bl

DIS: Proto: Pledges

2017-07-20 Thread V.J Rada
Also I need to spend my money before it gets blanked for value. Title: Pledges, again. Amend rule whatever "Pledges" by adding at the end {{{ No message shall be construed as a pledge unless it contains the word "pledge". A pledge is "publically made" only if the full effect of the pledge is publi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Jul 20, 2017 6:07 PM, "V.J Rada" wrote: Oh man there's always nothing better than waking up to 20 new messages and a Cuddlebeam scam. You're a pair of scare quotes short of my perception of the morning. -grok

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread V.J Rada
Oh man there's always nothing better than waking up to 20 new messages and a Cuddlebeam scam. On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Josh T wrote: > > That seems pretty open and shut then. Appending an adjective is a > mention of that > > property which is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Nic Evans
You also created an organization with a Japanese charter, which is acceptable because nothing says that chaarters have to be understandable. But it also hasn't been allowed to do anything meaningful. By the same token you could make a proposal in any language, pend it andd vote on it, but whether i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Josh T wrote: > That seems pretty open and shut then. Appending an adjective is a mention of > that > property which is no substitute of actually having that property. (i.e. > calling a > car which isn't red a "red car" doesn't magically change its colour) > [consider this

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Josh T
That seems pretty open and shut then. Appending an adjective is a mention of that property which is no substitute of actually having that property. (i.e. calling a car which isn't red a "red car" doesn't magically change its colour) [consider this a gratuitous argument if it does go to a CFJ] 天火狐

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Josh T
I'd just like to mention I haven't actually succeeded in making a non-registration action in Japanese, and I think all my attempts at voting in such were thrown out, which I believe is the correct way to interpret the rules. (While there are technical and cryptographic differences, using another la

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Josh T wrote: > I'm on vacation and only have mobile internet at the moment so I can't > check, but does the rule specify that the trust tokens needed to win are to > be issued by other players explicitly or that players can issue trust tokens > and one needs such

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Josh T
I'm on vacation and only have mobile internet at the moment so I can't check, but does the rule specify that the trust tokens needed to win are to be issued by other players explicitly or that players can issue trust tokens and one needs such tokens from multiple players? In the event of the latter

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
>First, you've *nearly* found ONE INTERNAL SCAM humble agoran bloodhoun...-puppy at your service. On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Cuddle Beam wrote: > > I disagree with that Public is explicitly defined. "Public message", > yes. "Public X" in gener

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Cuddle Beam wrote: > I disagree with that Public is explicitly defined. "Public message", yes. > "Public X" in general? > I don't believe so. "Public challenge" isn't explicitly defined to need to be > a public message, > just a challenge which is "Public" (which, via you

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
Woo, I was on the right track then. It's just that assembling these findings into scams where I'm still in milk teeth with when it comes to Agora. Tbh I perhaps should dedicate time to studying the whole ruleset but getting told where I'm wrong is less punishing than needing to elbow down and memo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > ...I also missed all of those other uses of "Public", sorry. Ctrl+F isn't > useful to browse the ruleset when it's so large and there are so many > references to a single term. grepping through the ruleset is easy if you've read the ruleset.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
Oh, and here's a couple where unclarity works as intended! > Magenta (M): During Agora's Birthday, each person who has publicly > acknowledged the > fact qualifies for a Magenta Ribbon. If this said "persons CAN acknowledge Agora's Birthday by announcement", this would mean everyone would hav

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
...I also missed all of those other uses of "Public", sorry. Ctrl+F isn't useful to browse the ruleset when it's so large and there are so many references to a single term. On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > >But so far a good 90% of your scams just trace back to poor or limit

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
>But so far a good 90% of your scams just trace back to poor or limited reading of the rules. >From your point of view, likely so. Imo its hardly as much, but still an uncomfortable amount. I think its taken as much because I sometimes have different opinions on what the rules mean. (for example, t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Cuddle Beam wrote: >> If that shielding doesn't get in the way, I'm guessing the trick would apply >> to >> "publicly posted (and not withdrawn) support (syn. "consent") for an >> announcement >> of intent to perform

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Cuddle Beam wrote: > If that shielding doesn't get in the way, I'm guessing the trick would apply > to > "publicly posted (and not withdrawn) support (syn. "consent") for an > announcement > of intent to perform the action" too? Basically anything "public" but that > isn'

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Sadly, I must concur with G. in his assessment of your scams. I appreciate his willingness to engage with evidence in response to your scams as I considered referencing the definition, but thought better of it. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jul 2

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Cuddle Beam wrote: > I feel like a lot of the shielding is going to be invisible meta-rules > ("public means > that it needs to be sent to the public fora", "the pledge needs to be public > itself and > understandable", etc). Is there an Agoran slang term for invisible >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Cuddle Beam wrote: > >that say that an action done by announcement has to be intelligible to > anyoneAll of the japanese isn't intelligible to me, yet it doesn't seem > to have broken that, regardless of what you believe Every actual by-announcement Agoran action that has

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
>that say that an action done by announcement has to be intelligible to anyone All of the japanese isn't intelligible to me, yet it doesn't seem to have broken that, regardless of what you believe (I understand your Cantus but I doubt people should change their (already debated) convictions because

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
Sure, all yours. And Ais523: We have serious CFJs about... a joke. Sending a nickle. I don't know what's the standard for CFJs right now, but people seem to be grasping at straws at what could be turned to become interesting. I'm alright with sending my CFJ at a period of relative lull like this (

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Cuddle Beam wrote: > Then from there, start to vie for that I only need to send the information to > whoever is affected and the officer in question (for example, if I give bob 2 > shinies, I'd only need to give hash translation to bob an the shiny-officer > and then enjoy

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
Exactly. Wouldn't then withdrawing need to have something like, "something something, you can withdraw by specifying a ballot, and then the specified ballot is withdrawn"? Or why is arbitrary choice allowed there and not in making proposal text or something? (which seems to need explicit "yes, you

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
yay, merit for me! ty. (I wonder if its possible to connect this to the other discovery that unregulated actions actually can't touch the gamestate lol.) Anyway, the hashed argument was just "lol I like boobs". Intentionally made to be inane so that it could be easily detected if it was in the Ju

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 21:06 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > If I had, most such documents would be nonsense and IRRELEVANT.  If > > I broke the Original, that would be enough to "convict" me, so any others > > wouldn't matter.  If I obeyed the Original, ther

DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Cuddle Beam wrote: > I'm piggybacking on Kerim's arguments/reasoning because I'd like to know if > encryption > (and eventually public asymmetric information in general, really) can be > applied to > Gratuitous Arguments (only the Judge needs them, yes? Just like the > tr

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Nicholas Evans
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > If we don't specify that proposal text can be arbitrary, it can't be > arbitrary? We aren't explicitly authorized to put anything we want, just > that a text is there. > > ​It's not about whether it's arbitrary, it's about whether we're empowe

DIS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3541 assigned to grok

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 22:03 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> On Jul 16, 2017, at 6:58 PM, Quazie wrote: >> >> > I pay nichdel a nickel's worth of shinies for taking over as >> > Assessor. >> >> I CFJ on the statement “A nickle’s worth of shinies

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
(However when you create a certain X, it then needs to meet requisites to actually spawn, if there are any. I'm assuming that, like with ballots, if its "a thing" without any requisites, it can be any) On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > If we don't specify that proposal text c

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
If we don't specify that proposal text can be arbitrary, it can't be arbitrary? We aren't explicitly authorized to put anything we want, just that a text is there. ...I made a diagram. Hopefully it proves that I'm not Faking (can "No Faking" be pulled against any interpretation you disagree with?)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Nicholas Evans
On Jul 20, 2017 09:17, "Cuddle Beam" wrote: And yes, I agree with that entirely, but I'm considering it from a different framework. I'll relate it back to (and I'm sorry for going around your scam so often, but it's a recent one and it's also about "a X") "a ballot". "A ballot". That's "any" bal

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
And yes, I agree with that entirely, but I'm considering it from a different framework. I'll relate it back to (and I'm sorry for going around your scam so often, but it's a recent one and it's also about "a X") "a ballot". "A ballot". That's "any" ballot, yes? Any ballot of your choosing. So "a T

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Nicholas Evans
But it doesn't exist. It can just potentially exist. Just because 'a rotten banana' or 'a Murphy trust token' are validly described and plausibly existent things doesn't mean an instantiation currently exists, that you have access to that instantiation, or that you can create that instantiation. O

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 15:32 +0200, Cuddle Beam wrote: > I don't force anyone to create tokens. I agree with that, with this method, > I can't make anyone give anything. I attempt to create a token such that > would have the same characteristics as if that person had created/granted > it (which woul

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
It kind of reminds me when I tried to give myself a "Badge that doesn't exist yet" (R2415: Any player CAN award a badge that does not yet exist) with a bunch of overpowered things because a badge with those overpowered things actually doesn't exist - so I can attempt to grant such an impossible bad

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 15:24 +0200, Cuddle Beam wrote: >> I'd prefer to spend a CFJ slot be spent but it's not an urgent CFJ at all. >> I'm be up for retracting it if you pledge that you'll resubmit it when the >> CFJ queue is empty enough (and i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
I don't force anyone to create tokens. I agree with that, with this method, I can't make anyone give anything. I attempt to create a token such that would have the same characteristics as if that person had created/granted it (which would be a type of Token, given that I can grant "a Token", which

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Nicholas Evans
But nobody else created them. You're only claiming they did. I point my finger at CB for violation of No Faking. E can't possibly believe e can force otger players to create tokens. On Jul 20, 2017 08:25, "Cuddle Beam" wrote: > I'd prefer to spend a CFJ slot be spent but it's not an urgent CFJ a

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer gives a win to everyone and then hopes to be given one too.

2017-07-20 Thread Nicholas Evans
You when by bein issued trust tokens _by_ players, so I don't think it matters who tge token is supposedly originally from. Even if you successfully issued a Murphy trust token to me, it was still issued by you and not Murphy. On Jul 20, 2017 08:07, "Cuddle Beam" wrote: > This isn't consequentia

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
Also, before I forget, this is "Message A", in SHA256: 522EF772154A383CA26D3DC4EAA2ADBEF1ADFA187D0F7AA32D44F01F468AFF05 1EB9270A02E632866CBB1C3D4F5386A3BBE6EE2BF449C6B47B157134F891352F AB5DF625BC76DBD4E163BED2DD888DF828F90159BB93556525C31821B6541D46 57CD837632D54FAC4362750ACA05EC813BF493527AEE9337

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
Sent. ...Now I brace myself. On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I would appreciate receiving the originals of both of these documents, if > you do not mind. > > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > p.scribonius

DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I would appreciate receiving the originals of both of these documents, if you do not mind. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jul 20, 2017, at 2:01 AM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > > I'm piggybacking on Kerim's arguments/reasoning because I'd like to know if

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
Keeping the spirit of what Kerim intended, what if they used some bijective function instead? Perhaps use multiple ways of writing the same promise in regular language, hash all of those in different ways, and then claim to promise what all of those hashes have in common (there must be a better wa

DIS: Re: BUS: public private contracts

2017-07-20 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 21:06 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > If I had, most such documents would be nonsense and IRRELEVANT.  If > I broke the Original, that would be enough to "convict" me, so any others > wouldn't matter.  If I obeyed the Original, there would still be some very > low but nonzero chan